CONTENTS op YOL. I. (1859.) 
Number I., January. 
p age 
I. On the Ornithology of Central. America. By Philip 
Lutlev: Sclater and Osbert Salvin. Parti.. .... 1 
II Notes on Birds observed in Southern Palestine in 
the months of March and April 1858. By the Bev. H. B. 
Tristram, E.L.S. 22 
III. Ornithological Beminiscences of Egypt. By E. 
Cavendish Taylor, M.A., E.Z.S. 41 
IY. On the different Methods of preparing Natural Skele¬ 
tons of Birds. By T. C. Eyton, E.Z.S.55 
Y. Characters of apparently New Species of Birds collected 
in the Great Desert of the Sahara, southwards of Algeria and 
Tunis. By the Bev. H. B. Tristram, E.L.S.57 
YI. Observations on the Birds of St. Croix, West Indies, 
made between February 20th and August 6th, 1857, by 
Alered Newton, and between March 4th and September 
28th, 1858, by Edward Newton. Part I. (Plate I.) . . 59 
YII. On the Breeding of the Smew, Mergus albellus. By 
John Wolley, jun.69 
YIII. Becent Discoveries in European Oology. By Wil¬ 
liam C. Hewitson. (Plate II.).76 
IX. Beview of Mr. Bree’s “ Birds of Europe not observed 
in the British Isles” .81 
X. Becent Ornithological Publications :— 
1. English 'publications :—Gould’s 4 Humming Birds,’ pts. 
15, 16; Gould’s ‘ Birds of Asia,’ pt. 10; Gould’s ‘ Monograph 
of the Trogons,’ new ed., pt. 1; Eyton’s ‘ Osteologia Avium ’; 
Bree’s ‘ European Birds ’; Illustrated Proceedings of the Zoo- 
